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Boas Enkler
Boas Enkler

Reputation: 12557

Cloning / Reading only history /log of a git repository

Within a locally cloned git repository I can watch the history with

git log

In a small tool I only need the history of a repository, not the code. Is there a way to clone a repository without the code (history only)?

Is there any other way to get the history only from a git repository?

Upvotes: 19

Views: 11209

Answers (3)

D S
D S

Reputation: 86

Combining the --bare and --filter=blob:none options on clone gives you the full logs while omitting the objects thus minimizing space for commit history:

git clone --bare --filter=blob:none ...

Upvotes: 6

Yong
Yong

Reputation: 1978

If you only want to view the history, you can use the partial clone feature with filtering out the blobs(file contents).

git clone --filter=blob:none YOUR_GIT_URL

Ref:

  1. git clone --filter
  2. Get up to speed with partial clone and shallow clone

Upvotes: 2

CodeManX
CodeManX

Reputation: 11855

Clone the repository with the --bare flag:

git clone --bare ...

A "bare" repository in Git just contains the version control information and no working files (no tree) and it doesn't contain the special .git sub-directory. Instead, it contains all the contents of the .git sub-directory directly in the main directory itself.

Read more in the documentation on it, or this helpfull page about setting up server environments using the option.

Upvotes: 16

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